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October 4, 1957 was the exact date of the Sputnik launch.
The U.S.S.R was the first country to put a spaceship in space, it was called Sputnik. It was in the year 1957.
The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union.
The race to space began in earnest in 1957 with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. This event marked the start of the space age and initiated a period of competition and innovation in space exploration between the United States and the Soviet Union.
It was named "Sputnik-1", and the year was 1957, not 1857.
The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957.
NASA was established on July 29, 1958. It was created in response to the Soviet Union's successful launch of the satellite Sputnik, marking the beginning of the "space race" between the two superpowers.
Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, as the world's first artificial satellite. It was a response to the U.S. plans to launch a satellite for the International Geophysical Year. Sputnik 1 marked the beginning of the space race between the two superpowers during the Cold War.
After several failures by both the USA and the USSR, the first successfulartificial satellite was launched from the USSR in October, 1957.
Sputnik I was launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957.
Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite launched successfully into orbit, was sent into space by the Soviet Union in 1957. During this year, Dwight D. Eisenhower was In the middle of his two-term Presidency, and Nikita Khrushchev was in his 5th year of Premiership of the Soviet Union.
Sputnik I was launched by Soviet Union on October 4,1957. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of the football. Answer The idea was first suggested in 1954 by Korolev, and development started in early 1956, so it took about a year and a half to build until launch in 1957.